After taking a second look at http://tv.adobe.com it is actually poorly
designed from a web developer’s point of view. I’m surely making some
assumptions here since I don’t know what went into the design of
tv.adobe.com, but this is my take on it :

1) Everytime you go to the front page you get a “Loading ..” sign. It
doesn’t matter if it’s the second or first time, though the first time
it is a longer load. This is a design flaw.

2) Does not adhere to browser conventions/standards. The back/fwd
buttons in the browser do little to help navigation in the site.

3) Not using css/html at all.

4) It’s a monolithic solution to a modular problem. The whole site
runs through AdobeTV.swf. Unlike youtube or every other video site
out there, that uses flash where appropriate.

According to the source code it was built in AIR.

<!—
Smart developers always View Source.

This application was built using Adobe Flex, an open source framework
for building rich Internet applications that get delivered via the
Flash Player or to desktops via Adobe AIR.

Learn more about Flex at http://flex.org
// —>

This statement shows some of the hypocrisy at Adobe and alot of
commercial orgs trying to sell themselves as open source. You look at
the source code, but do you see anything other than a reference to
AdobeTV.swf? No.

That doesn’t mean I won’t learn about all the cool things you can do
with flash to my heart’s content! In high def. even! One can’t deny
it’s amazing in many aspects, but design-wise from a web standpoint,
I’m a bit disappointed.